In the Heat of the Night

- Season 6

(1992)

While Sparta's police chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie celebrates a mis-trial with Harriet DeLong, they worry about her son Eugene Glendon, who is out on probation. He was tricked into waiting in his friend Byron's car while Byron bought cocaine from dealer Clay Wilson. The crack pusher gang 'the Crew' from Jackson kills both by shooting through the wall. Sparta's police investigates and tries to keep the drug pests from spreading from the city. The Crew returns to spread free drug samples, soon causing an OD wave.

Despite his disdain for Bill Gillespie, Harriet's son Eugene helps the Sparta Police bring down the crack house after he is an eyewitness to his best friend's drug-related murder.

Luann is furious when her slacker brother returns and is immediately accused of robbing a shady sports bar. Her mother is in denial and insists her son has changed.

A troubled high school student murders his ex-girlfriend's lover, then fixes it so her stepfather is blamed for the crime. Althea suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing the student's suicide.

Virgil enlists the help of Dr. Levi Atwill to help bring Althea out of her funk and return to her teaching job. The murder investigation is complicated when the dead student's ex-girlfriend acquires yet another boyfriend who murders her stepfather and seriously injured one of Gillespie's good friends.

Bill Gillespie makes peace with his estranged daughter after she comes to Sparta to settle her deceased mother's affairs.

Computer thieves provide a man with a window of opportunity to cover up for his wife's violent retaliation against her abusive boss.

The doctor treating Virgil's dying aunt is the chief suspect in a series of mercy killings.

A washed up country singer, whose biggest fan is Bubba Skinner, is accused of the murder of his former road manager.

Bubba is first on the scene of a carjacking and first in the heart of the victim, a city council woman with a history of "man problems".

When a young woman takes her life by jumping off a bridge, her boyfriend, who is also Virgil's law school classmate, stands accused of her murder.

A prominent judge's wife threatens to reveal a skeleton in his closet unless he grants her a lucrative divorce.

Wilson Sweet's job is put on the line when he is accused of soliciting a bribe from a shady used car salesman.

A threat made in anger makes Parker's stepfather the prime suspect in the murder of his former boss.

A single mother is harassed by her landlord, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend.

When a racist politician visits Sparta during his political rally, a staged assassination attempt intended to make him look better to his perspective voters goes horribly wrong.

The Sparta Police investigate when it is discovered that the murder attempt may not have been staged after all.

When an embezzler returns to Sparta after serving a prison sentence, quite a few people become suspects when the man is killed.

A man is determined to make sure a young woman does not receive her inheritance, promised by his grandfather 3 decades earlier.

Shady real estate developers try to drive Gillespie's daughter out of her property, in order to make way for a new development project.

The common-law husband of Lana's mother returns to Sparta and tries to extort money from the land developers, who are eventually driven out of town.

Sparta Police investigate the possibility of a prison bishop being forced off the road being racially motivated. Bill Gillespie and Harriet Delong discuss taking their relationship to the next level.